Headliners
- Owner cancels contest to sell Vt.’s Hardwick Gazette
- Vt.’s Free Press parent to cut jobs by 2% firm-wide
- VtDigger sues state over withheld public records
- Conn. town keeps secret the tape of a coach incident
- Mass. state police cook up high fee for evidence audits
- Maine Gov. LePage limits access to gov’t contract info
- Mass. police agency keeps cost of hiding cop brutality secret
- 3 N.E. news outfits finalists for online EPPY Awards
- Pembroke, Mass., school board hit for free-speech limits
- 2 N.H. men charged in Mass. paper’s newsrack bombing
- Summary of 6th annual N.E. 1st Amendment Institute
- NENPA U. session on opioids set for Nov. 17 in Mass.
- N.E. Newspaper Hall of Fame nominations open
Obituaries
- Florence R. Niles
- Robert Walter ‘Bob’ Donahue
- Thomas J. Buckley
- James J. ‘J.J.’ Smith
- Ann Pasqualini-Maglaris
- Barbara (Goldberg) Bernstein
- Cynthia ‘Cindy’ Desseau
- Nancy Wimmer
- James P. Kilroy
- Michael P. Pelkey
- Charles Edward Lynch
- Rev. Dr. Eric W. Bascom Jr.
- Philomena Maria Anderson
- Paul M. Anish
- Lawrence G. Dean
- Rita J. (Richard) Leduc
- Stephen Robert Moss
Transitions
Briefs
Awards and Honors
Advertising News
- GateHouse partners with Genesis on video advertising
- Edmonds: Print ad revenues accelerating
- 70 million in U.S. now use ad blockers
- Snapchat Discover proposes flat fee vs. ad $$ sharing
- Facebook adds options for monetizing Instant Articles
- Publishers happy with Apple News traffic, not its ad $$$
- How to monetize live streaming is puzzling publishers
Advice
Mobile/Online News
- Mobile is pushing desktop publishing down print’s path
- Publishers pleased with mobile traffic from Google AMP
- Doctor examines phone companies’ ‘owning’ internet
- Study: Print reaches more readers than declining digital
- Google News now flags fact-check posts
- News partnership created to vet breaking news online
- The geography, demography of video sharing
- Push notifications on browsers more in vogue
Social Media News
- Facebook adds free training website for journalists
- Facebook News Feed video now can be shown on TVs
- Snapchat moves to become camera, TV video firm
- Snapchat ahead of Twitter in active users. Is this why?
- Facebook Instant Articles adds photos, videos
- Facebook to ease graphic content rules for news items
- Study: Almost 1/4 of news pieces embed social media
Legal Briefs
- VtDigger sues over withheld Vt. gov’t public records
- Darien, Conn., keeps tape of coach incident secret
- Enterprise wins appeal for Brockton to disclose files
- Vt. suit seeks files of gov’t-subsidized private nonprofit
- Mass. state police cook up high fee for evidence audits
- Maine Gov. LePage limits access to gov’t contract info
- Mass. police agency keeps cost of hiding brutality secret
- Anti-GE group halts Boston gov’t meeting for violation
- Mass. court advances defamation suit vs. ex-gov Patrick
- Vt. ACLU raps delay in release of cop shooting video
- Only 86 of 365 Maine candidates sign open gov’t pledge
- Pembroke, Mass., school board hit for free-speech limits
- NEFAC, others protest Obama’s lack of openness
- Colleges’ commitment to free speech is in question
- Bodycam disclosure laws vary state to state
- Geofeedia’s aiding cops in monitoring protests criticized
Industry News
- DigBoston publisher stepping down, selling paper
- Owner cancels contest to sell Hardwick (Vt.) Gazette
- Summary of 6th annual N.E. 1st Amendment Institute
- Study: ‘News deserts’ loom under newspaper chains
- Vt.’s Free Press parent to cut jobs by 2% firm-wide
- Doctor: $1B Gannett purchase of Tronc, layoffs loom
- 3 alternatives posited as print continues to decline
- Knight Foundation head weighs ‘confused’ state of news
- Shafer: Newspapers erred in pursuing digital vs. print
- A history of data journalism, and its importance today
- Press group calls out Trump as threat to free press
- Examining journalists’ Hillary-heavy campaign donations
- Explosive growth seen for virtual and augmented reality
- Conference offers community engagement paths to $$$